Even weirder to see how much interest there IS for these items.
There's something about the canceled G2 stuff. I don't know what the word is. I think about how they could have been it. They are not like canceled Universe stuff or canceled final waves in more recent lines. They are relics of a brand in collapse. Transformers had already been resuscitated once and was clearly still fading. The unreleased G2 stuff could have been the last versions of these characters ever made, except G2 ended before they even had a chance to be. Even though Beast Wars came along and saved the brand without another yearlong hiatus, it was such a drastic reinvention that there still might have never been another Jazz.
I'm always up for canceled things in general finally being revisited and done. That's one of my favorite things about this era and design team, and it's been worth putting up with exclusives just to get these. It's even worth putting up with intentionally withheld paint (although I wish we didn't have to-- Grim really needs more blue striping) since that's easier to remedy than making something exist in the first place.
There's a shallowness to it on my part ("oh I can't have this? Well, guess again, universe, it looks like I can") alongside the closure of getting something that fell through the cracks. They're like trivia questions come to life-- that Optimus Prime redeco they almost made, the Sideswipe we never got, did you know there were supposed to be all FIVE Dinobots in G2...
Plus for some of these especially, the looks are just cool and I'd get them even without the canceled factor. Toxitron, Mirage, Cloudcover, Sandstorm, Laser Cycle Jazz, Sideswipe...
Canceled G2 stuff in particular also brings back echoes of that time period (I am old enough now to have multiple nostalgia era buttons), and G2's sadly short time in the sun as well.
